Yet within those strands, there are so many roads that this interesting and atmospheric British film noir the the Innocent fly on during that trek to the middle. The fly here is veteran TV actor Lee Patterson ("Surfside 6", "One Life to Live"), and the spider is Faith Domergue, an Ava Gardner like femme fatale who has all sorts of venom in her kisses. Domergue is the sister of a British mafia don who entraps Patterson in a dangerous game, using her female desirability to get him involved in the organization. But Patterson has a moral Center, unlike the sticky center of Domergue's web, and it is obvious who will end up being trapped in their own sinister plot, especially when Rona Anderson, the sweet girl Home Paterson really loves, ends up as a part of their scheme.
It takes much concentration but once you are in, it's difficult like the web to get out. Domergue is probably the best of the newly discovered femme fatales of the mid 1950's, honey voiced, but that honey can also be sticky and a trap. It's atmospheric and tense, with Patterson smart but appropriately innocent, like any fly drawn into a web should be. The tension builds ferociously as at the plot speeds towards its climax, and by that time I guarantee you will be hooked. That's Bernard Fox of "Bewitched" (Dr. Bombay) who ends up being one of Domergue's victims. This one is worthy of various viewings to get all the elements of the plot understood, although the conclusion left me a bit perplexed as to what really went down with certain elements.
It takes much concentration but once you are in, it's difficult like the web to get out. Domergue is probably the best of the newly discovered femme fatales of the mid 1950's, honey voiced, but that honey can also be sticky and a trap. It's atmospheric and tense, with Patterson smart but appropriately innocent, like any fly drawn into a web should be. The tension builds ferociously as at the plot speeds towards its climax, and by that time I guarantee you will be hooked. That's Bernard Fox of "Bewitched" (Dr. Bombay) who ends up being one of Domergue's victims. This one is worthy of various viewings to get all the elements of the plot understood, although the conclusion left me a bit perplexed as to what really went down with certain elements.